On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, Petra Ritter wrote:
Hallo,
I managed it to change the Mouse cursor in Coror and Size.
[solution elided for brevity]
This works fine for me exept in the Desktop itself it doesn't work at all. At
the desktop the Mouse Cursor has no canged.
Does the
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Petra Ritter wrote:
Hi,
Is this the only Way to change the Mouse-Corsor in color and size?
http://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2011/12/how-to-change-mouse-cursor-theme-on.html
I need a black and a bigger Mouse cursor, to be able to see it.
I don't need the hight color thema I
Thank you (all) for the work on this.
I've not been very active at all on this, but would like to contribute.
I've forgotten what I need to do to get (re-)started on the Pad system.
It might be useful to have a link or two about that.
Will there be more than one VI persona? Our needs are
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Alan Bell wrote:
On 10/11/11 11:04, Hugh Sasse wrote:
[...]
I've forgotten what I need to do to get (re-)started on the Pad system.
It might be useful to have a link or two about that.
basically go to the pad page in a graphical browser and start typing anywhere
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Alan Bell wrote:
On 10/11/11 15:11, Hugh Sasse wrote:
OK, added a couple of things. I don't have a CCTV magnifier at home, and
I don't use a web cam, so maybe someone can add something about:
Can present day CCTVs input to computers pretty much as standard
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Frederik Elwert wrote:
there are only few speech generating devices (SGDs) available on the
market, and those are as limited as they are expensive, I plan to build
a custom SGD using a tablet computer as a basis and applying available
I don't know about the hardware. I
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Hugh Sasse wrote:
In the book Beautiful Code [Andy Oram, Greg Wison, O'Reilly, 2007,
s/Wison/Wilson/
ISBN:9780596510046] Chapter 30 When a button is all that connects
Hugh
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Until someone else gives a better answer:
This seems to rely on output to braille embossers, or output to capsule paper.
(Capsule paper has bubbles in it that expand when heated, so you print in
black on it, the black bits absorb the heat, and get raised.)
Thus any drawing program could probably
On Mon, 24 May 2010, Carlos Mayans wrote:
Hey guys,
this is my the first time I write to the list, so first of all my name is
Carlos, I am from Spain and I have been working with people with different
types of disabilities in Kolkata India for almost two years, mainly deaf and
kids with
On Sun, 16 May 2010, Tim Cross wrote:
Hi Eric,
I've added comments in-line below. However, this is probably beginning to get
a little off topic for the list. Maybe take further discussion off list if you
I beg to differ. This is an accessibility list, and these questions are
surely
One would have hoped that 19 years after the Americans with
Disabilities Act, and 15 years after similar UK legislation was
enacted, things would have improved. I wonder if the Electronic
Frontier Foundation could use such legislation to get more
cross-platform support from the large commercial
I've not had chance to maintain this list in ages, but something useful
may lurk here:
http://www.tech.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/e-mail/#clients
I was not driven by accessibility when I wrote it, and use large print
rather than speech, so YMMV. You might find the curses based clients
such as Alpine
There seems to be a developers list at
vinux-developm...@googlegroups.com
according to
http://groups.google.com/group/vinux-development
I see no evidence of a users list at the moment.
HTH
Hugh
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Kenny Hitt wrote:
Hi. The Vinux developers should have there
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Steve Lee wrote:
I hope this article may contribute something here - it's not a 'how
to' but more of a pointer to what and who
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/openaccessibility.xml
There are some useful links in there about projects unfamiliar to me.
I'll be
I think there's a more fundamental question here. That is:
Why are people still developing inaccessible software?
The Americans With Disabilities Act dates back nearly two decades,
the UK legislation is about 15 years old, and that's just the legal
side of things, ignoring culture. So why
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Kenny Hitt wrote:
Hi. Your asumption is wrong. The problem of systems not having internal
speakers any more is a change
in main stream production. In the past, a computer case included an internal
speaker. That is no longer true. That fact
was never advertised,
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Bill Cox wrote:
I hope my criticism in this e-mail is taken as intended - constructive
criticism, rather than pointless ranting. I would like to raise a
[important points about important problems, strongly put, trimmed]
I hope this is taken as a call to action.
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
What can be done to make accessibility work more accessible? :-)
well, it would really really help if you, or someone just like you could make
NaturallySpeaking completely reliable under wine. Then we could examine
A good goal, but not
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, mike wrote:
Hi, I am in need of a small rescue live CD that would have software speech.
Grml is perfect, but they don't include the option for software speech on
their median or small CD.
There is a Ubuntu rescue CD, but it has no software speech on it.
Do any
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
Hugh Sasse wrote:
I'm not sure if this is anything near what you are looking for.
I thought people used web forums for this sort of thing now.
the only difference being that the old BBSs from the 1980s are faster and
have a
better user
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, mike wrote:
Hi, many of you probably remember the old BBS systems that ran in dos. Does
anyone know if there is any BBS programs that run in Linux? Of course I need
one that would be accessible with Orca or speakup if such software is out
there.
Thanks Mike.
IIRC
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, mike coulombe wrote:
[...] As a thanks I am willing to
put together a basic guide for new users that will give them
some basic information they can use to get started with orca and
ubuntu. [...]
Definitely a good idea. Trawling bookshops and the web there is
I've had a chance to explore a Ubuntu system at the weekend,
dual boot and also running on a Microsoft Virtual Machine.
Booting straight into GNU/Linux worked very well, but I had some
problems I'd like to report with the virtual machine. On the
whole the interface was good, and I'm impressed
Sorry for the delay in response -- been sent off site for a few days.
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, alan c wrote:
Hugh Sasse wrote:
I've been finding that when I move the mouse over some
icons in order to magnify them, they are activated as if I have
double-clicked on them.
This is the touch pad
I've just started working on a laptop which I'm trying to make
accessible for me, and it has Ubuntu, and is setup with KDE. At the
moment I have no preferences for KDE or Gnome, as I've not really
used either successfully. I normally use Solaris, and nowadays
normally from a Windows machine
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